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Windows 2008 Server Assuria Auditor agent released

Introduction

Windows 2008 Server operating system is now generally available.  Assuria is pleased to announce that it has completed testing of an all new Assuria Auditor agent for Windows 2008 Server.  The W2K8 agent is generally available to Assuria Auditor users.

Assuria released a BETA agent for the Windows 2008 Server environment in December 2007. 

Windows 2008 Server Assuria Auditor agent

Assuria has released an all new Assuria Auditor agent for Windows 2008 Server (W2k8). 

Microsoft Windows 2008 Server introduces new features and facilities and the new Assuria Auditor includes relevant check for new W2K8 features.

The new Assuria Auditor W2K8 agent includes all of the relevant checks from earlier Windows agents and new checks / policies / features for the W2K8 features and facilities.

New Assuria Auditor W2K8 agent features and facilities include:

• Roles and Features. New baselines allows system administrators to record which applications and tools have been installed on a system using the new W2K8 roles and features interface and apply their standard security practice accordingly.

• Broker baseline – This baseline records privilege escalation policies which may have been installed on the server

• Integrity Levels added to freezer file baselines and relevant checks

• Additional IE, Active Directory, Firewall and profile checks

Information on these new features is available on the Microsoft sites below>

Roles

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/editions/roles.mspx

Brokers

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250462.aspx

Integrity

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625964.aspx

Assuria Auditor Console

Assuria Auditor AutoUpdate #77 updated the Console adding the features required to fully support the new agent.  Users should ensure their Console is at AU 77 or later when adding the W2K8 agent to the Console.

Download

The W2K8 agent is available fro download from the usual location on AssuriaOnline (https://www.assuriaonline.com.

Installation Instructions

Installation instructions for the agent are available for download from AssuriaOnline.

Further information

For further information regarding the Assuria Auditor Windows 2008 server agent please contact Assuria at support@assuria.com.